More than 17,000 new Chinese characters coded characters are added

Guangming Daily, Beijing, August 3 (Reporter Chen Haibo) The National Standardization Management Committee, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the National Language Working Committee recently jointly released the new version of "Information Technology Chinese Coding Character Collection" for compulsory national standards (GB 18030-2022) Essence Compared with the previous version of the standard, the new national standard has increased more than 17,000 raw Chinese characters, providing strong standard guarantees for inheriting Chinese culture, enhancing Chinese information processing capabilities, and meeting the needs of the names of rare characters.

According to the National Standards Commission, "Chinese Coding Character Collection" is the most important basic standard in the field of Chinese information technology. It is uniformly encoded in Chinese characters and many ethnic characters in my country. Code standard. Therefore, the standards of this standard are abundant and widely used. The standard was first released in 2000, and the first revision in 2005 supported the needs of Chinese information processing and exchange in my country.

The mandatory national standards for the new version of "Information Technology Chinese Coding Character" will be officially implemented on August 1, 2023. A total of 87,887 Chinese characters will be included, an increase of more than 17,000 rare Chinese characters from the previous version. Not only does it include all Chinese characters in the "General Standard Chinese Character Tables" issued by the State Council, but also can cover most of the names of most people in my country, place names, and professional fields such as literature and technology, which can meet all kinds of use needs.

"Guangming Daily" (08, August 04, 2022)

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